Re: E450 Fan tray noise
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:30:33PM +0100, Rene van Dijk wrote: Hi, I just finished installing Debian Woody on an Ultra E450 without major problems. The only annoying thing is the systems fans keep running at full speed. Previously this system was running Solaris 2.6 and the fans ran at full speed during boot. After a successfull boot they switched to 'low' speed. How can I silence my E450 :) I recall that there is a kernel config option (compile time) for a module to handle this. I _think_ I included this as a module in the default kernels. Give modconf a look to see if there's something in the sparc specific modules (like an env module or something). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
Internet with Debian Cayman 3220 router slower than with Windows 56K modem
Dear Debians, I am connecting to internet with Debian for SPARC and a Cayman 3220H router. I tested the line for the n-th time today and it is slower that with a 56K modem (!!!) under Windows 98 ... how is it possible? The resolv.conf file contains the IP address of my router as DNS nameserver - I presume this is wrong, it was configured automatically during installation of the OS in this way. I tried to edit the resolv.conf with the ISP data, but when I reboot the computer the edited file gets overwritten with the old configuration data - or what? Is it possible to tune this thing better to internet? Thanks for your attention. Lou
Introduction and First Question that I've never been able to answer...
Greetings everyone I have been using Debian sparc for several years covering sun4c/m/u architectures and am a certified Sun field technician. I look forward to helping the list out when it comes to dealing with hardware issues as well as OS/software related. I run all sparc Debian and solaris at home and am the Field Team Lead for the company I work for by day. My major administration question is; How on earth do I get Debian to handle the OBP setting of 'local-mac-address' properly so that I have the unique mac addresses provided from the card installed and not the hostid of the box? I see this setting doesn't get handled by 2.2 or by 2.4 by default out of the box (or at all) and I would like to ensure that my unique MACs are actually the ones on the cards themselves. Solaris handles this all very nicely on the same box. I primarily want this answered so I can have unique and accurate MAC's on my firewall and my file server has a pair of RSM 2000 attached with several NICs running solaris. I discovered that when dealing with cheaper consumer switches under Debian or solaris, leaving the MAC addresses set to default of non unique based on the hostid results in much NFS grief between Debian clients (on sparc or intel) and Solaris NFS servers. Thank you -Ivan
Re: Introduction and First Question that I've never been able to answer...
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:20, Ivan Dahlberg wrote: Greetings everyone I have been using Debian sparc for several years covering sun4c/m/u architectures and am a certified Sun field technician. I look forward to helping the list out when it comes to dealing with hardware issues as well as OS/software related. I run all sparc Debian and solaris at home and am the Field Team Lead for the company I work for by day. My major administration question is; How on earth do I get Debian to handle the OBP setting of 'local-mac-address' properly so that I have the unique mac addresses provided from the card installed and not the hostid of the box? I have an Ultra 5 running 2.4.17 that has a Sun Quad Ethernet card in it. This machine is running as a firewall and every ethernet interface has a unique MAC address. I don't think that I did anything special to get this. I am running Debian 3.0 also. On the other hand, I haven't found anyone that has been able to get the dmfe ethernet nic's in the Sun SunFire to work with linux yet. I have 8 SunFire V100 servers, some of which I would like to run linux on, but can't because of the ethernet drivers. I see this setting doesn't get handled by 2.2 or by 2.4 by default out of the box (or at all) and I would like to ensure that my unique MACs are actually the ones on the cards themselves. Solaris handles this all very nicely on the same box. I primarily want this answered so I can have unique and accurate MAC's on my firewall and my file server has a pair of RSM 2000 attached with several NICs running solaris. I discovered that when dealing with cheaper consumer switches under Debian or solaris, leaving the MAC addresses set to default of non unique based on the hostid results in much NFS grief between Debian clients (on sparc or intel) and Solaris NFS servers. Thank you -Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel R. Bidwell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrews University Computer Science Information Systems Department If two always agree, one of them is unnecessary Friends don't let friends do DOS In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, however, they are not.
Re: Introduction and First Question that I've never been able to answer...
Am I answering my own question here... lol. I just went through the docs on all the various types of interfaces and it is the interface that is the problem. I will script a change to happen on boot that will alter my hme interfaces to be unique. In regards to dmfe, I'm not sure if you have ripped apart the box to look but it is a davicom chipset. This should be handled with tulip. The chipset is DM9102AD -Ivan Daniel Bidwell wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:20, Ivan Dahlberg wrote: Greetings everyone I have been using Debian sparc for several years covering sun4c/m/u architectures and am a certified Sun field technician. I look forward to helping the list out when it comes to dealing with hardware issues as well as OS/software related. I run all sparc Debian and solaris at home and am the Field Team Lead for the company I work for by day. My major administration question is; How on earth do I get Debian to handle the OBP setting of 'local-mac-address' properly so that I have the unique mac addresses provided from the card installed and not the hostid of the box? I have an Ultra 5 running 2.4.17 that has a Sun Quad Ethernet card in it. This machine is running as a firewall and every ethernet interface has a unique MAC address. I don't think that I did anything special to get this. I am running Debian 3.0 also. On the other hand, I haven't found anyone that has been able to get the dmfe ethernet nic's in the Sun SunFire to work with linux yet. I have 8 SunFire V100 servers, some of which I would like to run linux on, but can't because of the ethernet drivers. I see this setting doesn't get handled by 2.2 or by 2.4 by default out of the box (or at all) and I would like to ensure that my unique MACs are actually the ones on the cards themselves. Solaris handles this all very nicely on the same box. I primarily want this answered so I can have unique and accurate MAC's on my firewall and my file server has a pair of RSM 2000 attached with several NICs running solaris. I discovered that when dealing with cheaper consumer switches under Debian or solaris, leaving the MAC addresses set to default of non unique based on the hostid results in much NFS grief between Debian clients (on sparc or intel) and Solaris NFS servers. Thank you -Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCSI hard drive in IPX
Kinda prompted by Ivan's intro, but anyone can feel free to advise ;) Is there anything special I need to account for to use a SCSI drive from a PC on a SPARC IPX ? I'm just getting started with an old IPX, and while the original 428 MB drive works fine, I can't get either of a couple of ex-PC SCSI drives to work yet. All of the drives are Seagates, and I've followed the doc's to set them up in an equivalent fashion (I think), yet after the kernel boots, the new drives both have trouble spinning up (and time out eventually). I think I have the terminators worked out (the drive controllers are recognized). I note that the original disk has a SUN428 show up in drive description, is there something specific about the controller in a Sun supplied drive as opposed to a generic unit from Seagate ? Pointers/advice appreciated, thanks. ... Niall
Re: SCSI hard drive in IPX
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:16PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote: Kinda prompted by Ivan's intro, but anyone can feel free to advise ;) Is there anything special I need to account for to use a SCSI drive from a PC on a SPARC IPX ? I'm just getting started with an old IPX, and while the original 428 MB drive works fine, I can't get either of a couple of ex-PC SCSI drives to work yet. All of the drives are Seagates, and I've followed the doc's to set them up in an equivalent fashion (I think), yet after the kernel boots, the new drives both have trouble spinning up (and time out eventually). I think I have the terminators worked out (the drive controllers are recognized). Some (most?) scsi disks have a jumper to make them spin up on power-on. Some systems require this to be set. Frank I note that the original disk has a SUN428 show up in drive description, is there something specific about the controller in a Sun supplied drive as opposed to a generic unit from Seagate ? Pointers/advice appreciated, thanks. ... Niall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI hard drive in IPX
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:16PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote: Kinda prompted by Ivan's intro, but anyone can feel free to advise ;) Is there anything special I need to account for to use a SCSI drive from a PC on a SPARC IPX ? I'm just getting started with an old IPX, and while the original 428 MB drive works fine, I can't get either of a couple of ex-PC SCSI drives to work yet. Do a probe-scsi-all from the OpenBoot prompt. See if you have any problems there. If you get problems at the OBP, you can't expect Linux to do much better with it. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
Re: tftp install on IPX
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 04:45:52PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Irvin Probst wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 21:55, Niall Parker wrote: Unfortunately the system hangs after the Booting Linux ... prompt, no further messages. IPX are sun4c, so you should read what I wrote about Debian on SS2 (http://www.irvinig.org/ss2.html). Bye Thanks for the pointer ... after some more fiddling I had gotten the linux-a.out kernel booting with the root supposedly via NFS, but I lacked the appropriate OpenProm command line (I assumed the kernel could figure out the NFS stuff via DHCP, but that wasn't the case) In the mean time though, after being forced to rely on my floppy, I gave it another vacuum and managed to boot the system that way ... ;-) Now that I have it installed though it seems to need a major performance tuneup ... I can't believe I once used one of these machines as my daily workstation ! (was SunOS that much quicker ?) Dude. Expectations. Think about how much code [crap?] has been added to OSes and apps since them daze. Why do you think 16MB was somewhat reasonable back then? Try to think back about a couple of things: 10BT networking seemed *sweet* as opposed to 'hey -- the network is down!'; 5MB/sec external vacuums ~:^) were awesome because you could add a huge 500MB disk -- man, space for all the source for several different SunOS releasesa; one did not run cscope unless you *absolutely had to*. a
E450 Fan tray noise
Hi, I just finished installing Debian Woody on an Ultra E450 without major problems. The only annoying thing is the systems fans keep running at full speed. Previously this system was running Solaris 2.6 and the fans ran at full speed during boot. After a successfull boot they switched to 'low' speed. How can I silence my E450 :) System specs: E450 (Ultrasparc-II 248 Mhz) 1Gb main memory 4x 4.3Gb storage Regards, Rene
